IrishaciIrish Folklore and History2013-02-09T03:32:14Zhttp://www.irishaci.org/feed/atom/WordPressDeclanhttp://www.irishaci.org/?p=942013-02-09T03:28:58Z2011-07-19T00:46:34ZMedieval Ireland was also marked by an English policy of plantation which led to the arrival of thousands of English and Scottish Protestant settlers. As the military and political defeat of Gaelic Ireland became more clear in the early seventeenth century, the role of religion as a new division in Ireland became more pronounced. From...read more »

]]>Medieval Ireland was also marked by an English policy of plantation which led to the arrival of thousands of English and Scottish Protestant settlers. As the military and political defeat of Gaelic Ireland became more clear in the early seventeenth century, the role of religion as a new division in Ireland became more pronounced. From this period on, sectarian conflict became a recurrent theme in Irish history.

]]>0Declanhttp://www.irishaci.org/?p=902013-02-09T03:22:51Z2011-07-17T16:02:34ZThe Fleadh Nua Festival brings together concerts, céilithe, music, song and dancing workshops, and each year thousands of people in search of traditional entertainment attend. The festival is held every year in the picturesque town of Ennis in County Clare.

]]>The Fleadh Nua Festival brings together concerts, céilithe, music, song and dancing workshops, and each year thousands of people in search of traditional entertainment attend. The festival is held every year in the picturesque town of Ennis in County Clare.

]]>0Declanhttp://www.irishaci.org/?p=1102013-02-09T03:26:29Z2011-06-01T08:19:35ZIreland’s oldest city, Waterford, hosts the Tall Ships Race, where over 70 tall ships race around the quays for four thrilling days. The festival also features parades, traditional music, street entertainment and markets in addition to all the seafaring fun. The Crews Parade will feature more than 1,500 young sailing trainees who will make their...read more »

]]>Ireland’s oldest city, Waterford, hosts the Tall Ships Race, where over 70 tall ships race around the quays for four thrilling days. The festival also features parades, traditional music, street entertainment and markets in addition to all the seafaring fun. The Crews Parade will feature more than 1,500 young sailing trainees who will make their way through the streets in song and dance before climbing on the ships for the race of a lifetime.

]]>0Declanhttp://www.irishaci.org/?p=1132013-02-09T03:31:35Z2011-04-30T08:22:02ZOn this day in 1945, holed up in a bunker under his headquarters in Berlin, Adolf Hitler commits suicide by swallowing a cyanide capsule and shooting himself in the head. Soon after, Germany unconditionally surrendered to the Allied forces, ending Hitler’s dreams of a “1,000-year” Reich.

]]>On this day in 1945, holed up in a bunker under his headquarters in Berlin, Adolf Hitler commits suicide by swallowing a cyanide capsule and shooting himself in the head. Soon after, Germany unconditionally surrendered to the Allied forces, ending Hitler’s dreams of a “1,000-year” Reich.

]]>0Declanhttp://www.irishaci.org/?p=1072013-02-09T03:32:14Z2011-04-23T08:16:31ZAccording to tradition, the great English dramatist and poet William Shakespeare is born in Stratford-on-Avon on April 23, 1564. It is impossible to be certain the exact day on which he was born, but church records show that he was baptized on April 26, and three days was a customary amount of time to wait...read more »

]]>According to tradition, the great English dramatist and poet William Shakespeare is born in Stratford-on-Avon on April 23, 1564. It is impossible to be certain the exact day on which he was born, but church records show that he was baptized on April 26, and three days was a customary amount of time to wait before baptizing a newborn. Shakespeare’s date of death is conclusively known, however: it was April 23, 1616. He was 52 years old and had retired to Stratford three years before.

]]>0Declanhttp://www.irishaci.org/?p=1052012-05-26T05:06:33Z2011-04-22T08:15:36ZThe overthrow, in 1613, of the Catholic majority in the Irish parliament was realised principally through the creation of numerous new boroughs, all of which were Protestant-dominated. By the end of the seventeenth century all Catholics, representing some 85% of Ireland’s population then, were banned from the Irish parliament. Political power rested entirely in the...read more »

]]>The overthrow, in 1613, of the Catholic majority in the Irish parliament was realised principally through the creation of numerous new boroughs, all of which were Protestant-dominated. By the end of the seventeenth century all Catholics, representing some 85% of Ireland’s population then, were banned from the Irish parliament. Political power rested entirely in the hands of an Anglo settler-colonial, and more specifically the state church (Church of Ireland) minority, while the Catholic and some Protestant denominations suffered severe political and economic privations.

]]>0Declanhttp://www.irishaci.org/?p=792012-05-26T05:06:33Z2011-04-16T22:17:53ZJust after 6 p.m. on April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. is fatally shot while standing on the balcony outside his second-story room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. The civil rights leader was in Memphis to support a sanitation workers’ strike and was on his way to dinner when a bullet struck...read more »

]]>Just after 6 p.m. on April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. is fatally shot while standing on the balcony outside his second-story room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. The civil rights leader was in Memphis to support a sanitation workers’ strike and was on his way to dinner when a bullet struck him in the jaw and severed his spinal cord. King was pronounced dead after his arrival at a Memphis hospital. He was 39 years old.

]]>0Declanhttp://www.irishaci.org/?p=1022013-02-09T03:27:30Z2011-04-16T08:13:36ZOn 02 May 2011 – 31 May 2011 Belfast’s Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival promises this year to be bigger and better than ever with a thrilling calendar of events across 11 fun-filled days. There’s an array of international talent bringing comedy, music, street theatre, literature and much more to this vibrant quarter of Belfast City.

]]>On 02 May 2011 – 31 May 2011 Belfast’s Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival promises this year to be bigger and better than ever with a thrilling calendar of events across 11 fun-filled days. There’s an array of international talent bringing comedy, music, street theatre, literature and much more to this vibrant quarter of Belfast City.

]]>0Declanhttp://www.irishaci.org/?p=772012-05-26T05:06:33Z2011-04-15T16:16:50ZFrom around AD 800, more than a century of Viking invasions brought havoc upon the monastic culture and on the island’s various regional dynasties, yet both of these institutions proved strong enough to survive and assimilate the invaders. The coming of Cambro-Norman mercenaries under Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, nicknamed Strongbow, in 1169...read more »

]]>From around AD 800, more than a century of Viking invasions brought havoc upon the monastic culture and on the island’s various regional dynasties, yet both of these institutions proved strong enough to survive and assimilate the invaders. The coming of Cambro-Norman mercenaries under Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, nicknamed Strongbow, in 1169 marked the beginning of more than 700 years of direct Norman and, later, English involvement in Ireland

]]>0Declanhttp://www.irishaci.org/?p=752012-05-26T05:06:33Z2011-04-14T22:16:05ZPan Celtic Festival began in Killarney in 1971 when it aimed to foster better relations between the Celtic nations of Ireland, Scotland, Brittany, the Isle of Mann, Cornwall and Wales. Today it has grown to a fully fledged celebration of Celtic culture with parades, music, dancing and sports.

]]>Pan Celtic Festival began in Killarney in 1971 when it aimed to foster better relations between the Celtic nations of Ireland, Scotland, Brittany, the Isle of Mann, Cornwall and Wales. Today it has grown to a fully fledged celebration of Celtic culture with parades, music, dancing and sports.